“Adulterers, beware: Your cheatin’ heart might be exposed by E-ZPass. E-ZPass and other electronic toll collection systems are emerging as a powerful means of proving infidelity. That’s because when your spouse doesn’t know where you’ve been, E-ZPass does. ‘E-ZPass is an E-ZPass to go directly to divorce court, because it’s an easy way to show you took the off-ramp to adultery,’ said Jacalyn Barnett, a New York divorce lawyer who has used E-ZPass records a few times. Lynne Gold-Bikin, a Pennsylvania divorce lawyer, said E-ZPass helped prove a client’s husband was being unfaithful: ‘He claimed he was in a business meeting in Pennsylvania. And I had records to show he went to New Jersey that night.’ Generally mounted inside a vehicle’s windshield behind the rearview mirror, E-ZPass devices communicate with antennas at toll plazas, automatically deducting money from the motorist’s prepaid account. Of the 12 states in the Northeast and Midwest that are part of the E-ZPass system, agencies in seven states provide electronic toll information in response to court orders in criminal and civil cases, including divorces, according to an Associated Press survey… Bob Barr, a former Republican congressman from Georgia turned Libertarian and privacy rights advocate, said people who want to protect their privacy shouldn’t use electronic toll systems. ‘People are foolish to buy into these systems without thinking, just because they want to save 20 seconds of time going through a toll booth,’ he said.” — Yahoo (US)

It goes without saying that any records — cellphone calls, credit-card statements, subway passes, pretty much anything with a barcode — can challenge the petty falsehoods that philanderers use to conceal their indiscretions. It is difficult to see why there is anything particularly noteworthy about E-ZPass.

It’s pure overstatement to assert that the technology is a “powerful means of proving infidelity.” E-ZPass can prove that you took a certain highway. It can situate you in a certain geographical area. It can’t prove that you fucked anybody. Geez, what does this reporter think? That women have toll booths in their crotches and men strap E-ZPass transmitters to their dicks? Now that would be something. “Our records show that you approached Betty’s turnstile going 90 miles per hour, entered, exited, entered, exited, entered, exited, and then littered her median with your body fluids.” That would be proof of infidelity. Anything else is deniable.

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